ROBOTROCK: Compressorhead - Ace of Spades

I have no words for this. Maybe it's because I am seriously lacking coffee and/or Rockstar Recovery but I seriously feel and look like a Winamp visualization now.


FASHION: Creepy Couture / Robotic Spider Dress

Exploration within the realms of robotic dresses; a spider dress gave birth. A cute little host creature created by fashiontech designer ANOUK WIPPRECHT and hacker & engineer DANIEL SCHATZMAYR - A prototype of a mechanic dress equipped with sensors indicators and controllers, created with the aim to give more power and 'psychological thrills' to the sugar sweet character that performative wearables often have. Sensoric, servo controlled, mechanic, microcontroller based and reacting//attacking upon approach, inspired by the game LIMBO. (via dvice)

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MOVIE TRAILER: TPB AFK

Trailer for the upcoming documentary TPB AFK about the founders of the filesharing site the Pirate Bay. The film will be released for free online at the premiere of a major film festival. Release date to be announced during Jan 2013. You can support the filmmakers by pre-ordering the film on http://watch.tpbafk.tv/buy

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ONE TRACK A WEEK #02: Skinny Puppy - Cullorblind (Necro Facility remix)

One track a week to sum up the track that defined the past seven days. Second badge definitely goes out to an old lover, Skinny Puppy, remixed by a new lover, Necro Facility and in all honesty I couldn't really decide which one's the better - the remix that's been spinned at Tokyo Decadance by cEvin kEy or the original one.

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MUSIC: 7 Ways to Body-Make Beats

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Just a listen something I posted to the Tastebuds Blog this Friday - stuff about how to make music with your body, Kinect and/or some sensors. Features the V Motion Project (above) and my favourite in the whole bunch, Ethno Tekh (below). Japanese body DJ Daito Manabe also made it to the last with an amazing streetdance/sensormusic project dENiZEN (bottom). Read more about sensor porn here!



MUSIC VIDEO: Charli XCX - You (Ha Ha Ha)

Got half an eye on Charli XCX via following up on a few witch house acts, never got disappointed by her constantly changing stuff, not even with her Brooke Candy collab. Notice the Cyberdog top!

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We'd been heavily influenced by the world of Tumblr superstars and the quick click, pop-tastic world of the internet in my previous videos, so this time we decided to look elsewhere," she writes. "We'd been watching a lot of grindhouse movies, mostly with strong female leads like The Pom Pom Girls and Coffy, and there seemed to be a bizarre cross over from that genre of cinema and today's world of pop. Shooting the video in a gun factory seemed like the perfect grindhouse setting for a kick ass, girl power story, with super pretty girls swapping the bullets for lipstick. Cute!"" (more on pitchfork)


ANGELSPIT: Recording Abandoned Telephone Lines

Part #1: Zoog is recording the sounds of abandoned telephone lines near El Paso Texas in January, 2013.
These recordings will be used in Angelspit's new album - due for release late 2013.
NOTE: Zoog did manage to make the recordings without getting bit by rattle snakes, scorpions, or shot by rednecks (!!).
Part #2 of this video diary will show how Angelspit used these recordings on their new album.


GAME TRAILER: Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077, the next game from The Witcher developer CD Projekt RED, slows things down for its first teaser trailer, showing off the public dangers of wrist-scythe implants. The video introduces the Night City police and the elite takedown force known colloquially as the Psycho Squad, whose duty is to exterminate "psychos," people who take body modification too far and lose their humanity. (more at joystiq and the official cp2077 site)

THANKS TO EVERYONE DURING THE PAST FEW DAYS WHO SENT IT TO ME. You were so enthusiastic I feel I gotta grab a CP2020 rulebook off a shelf!

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DANCE: LilyPad Arduino Wireless Dance Costume Performance

Performance of Utam Moses (choreographer) and Eric Lindsay's (composer) "The Space Between Us", for computationally enhanced dancers and MAX/MSP. The costumes are embedded with LilyPad Ardino technology; One of the dancers' (with the round skirt) costume combines LilyPad components and a XBee (wireless transmitter) together with pressure and flex sensors connected by conductive thread, which detects and transmits the movements of the dancer to the composer's laptop, which are then used to generate and control sound within a MAX/MSP environment.

Instead of a dancer's movements being a slave to the fixed constraints of a pre-composed piece of music, the wireless dance costume puts the power of live musical composition in the hands (body) of the dancer, who can explore and improvise new shapes and structures within an otherwise free musical environment.

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GAME TRAILER: Remember Me

The player controls Nilin (voiced by Kezia Burrows), an amnesiac 'memory hunter', through the streets of Neo-Paris in the year 2084. This dystopian future features a surveillance state. Nilin's former employer, Memoreyes, erases her memories to neutralize her and she must discover why and how to restore them. The game opens with Nilin in Bastille Prison. Remember Me features exploration, platforming, and melee combat. The game introduces the mechanic of 'memory remixing': entering and rearranging a target's memories to manipulate them. Players accomplish this by replaying a memory and modifying details to change the target's recollection of the outcome. (more)

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SIMILE: A Day in The Life of Hunter S. Thompson

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Moi: Pierre, I envy this bastard, I want a life like this.
Pierre: Mionami WTF, you already have a life like this.
Moi: FML.


OLDIE BUT GOLDIE: r u a cyberpunk?

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This page comes from Mondo 2000 but if you want to get more hardcore, check out The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook by R. U. Sirius and St. Jude. (amazon link here, cyberpunkreview here, puretext here that makes no sense, it's mostly pictures anyways!)


ONE TRACK A WEEK #01: Destroid - Lucretia My Reflection

One track a week to sum up the track that defined the past seven days. First badge goes out to a Sisters of Mercy cover by Destroid, this song taking New Year's Eve & Day with it. And lots of memories about how I got into the goth scene. And because it's a great track. Check the studio version here - the original's this way.

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as it happens, loud and busy

As it happens, your year this time will be loud and busy. Your years are always like that, I know. This time, especially so. I'll jury-rig a coffeebomb for you if your prediction ends up true again. It always does. Coffeebomb, mind you, is not far from a derelict porn niche diligently exercised by the kind of office workers who have separate names for all the muscles that makes their eye tick. I like you this much to offer you anthropologically high-valued porn biscuits. (Yes, I know you like me, too.)

I have resolutions for 2013. Being the consensus-shaking catalyst bastard that I am, all those resolutions are summoned up to sharpen up the brainmeat and keep it thinking. Moving. Fermenting. Fornicating with itself.

One book every week. Stick to Jeremy Dawson's system of how to listen to new bands every week and every day. Brush up French. Take up Mandarin Chinese. Get back to biking. Learn to forget about gravity while I'm riding up to Muswell Hill. Get back to tai chi & chi kung. Trick up consensus reality once again. Learn the Melbourne Shuffle. Get that collateral damage of a second book idea to synopsis level, then at least to half-manuscript stage. Sell that grotesque series I've written to a network. Get the Damage Report ebook out.

This is twelve. We'll see in a little less than 360 days how it went.